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ARTICLE · 26 SEPTEMBER 2006

Banking & Finance Update, September 2006

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The Regulatory Advisory and Compliance Group is the new name for gadens lawyers compliance team.

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The Regulatory Advisory and Compliance Group (the RAC Group) is the new name for gadens lawyers compliance team.

a new name for a great team

The Regulatory Advisory and Compliance Group (the RAC Group) is the new name for gadens lawyers compliance team.

Australia's leading advice team for the mortgage industry is completely unable to solve one fundamental problem; how to make regulation and compliance sound like the incredibly interesting and rewarding field it is. Instead it sounds like a group of backroom boffins.

The fact that the gadens lawyers team works daily with gadens lawyers' large corporate, commercial and residential documentation teams ensures boffins they are not. This unique connection ensures practical, industry leading solutions designed to facilitate transactions and avoid unnecessary "clutter".

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